By the Editor, In Trust Network
We should be empathetic and compassionate toward a president with declining mental acuity. But politicians, the press, and elites seem to view Biden’s loosening grip primarily as a political problem.
The constant commentary nearly always starts with a laudatory acknowledgement that this president has been one of the greatest, that his achievements are many and historic.
Such comments demonstrate an ideology that refuses to recognize observable reality.
We have a blow-out debt problem of historic proportions, more than $40 trillion when you factor in unfunded liabilities like social security and medicare.
The climate agenda is forcing dislocation in markets, and driving up the cost of energy even while making it less reliable.
Open borders encourage a migrant tsunami that is straining local and state resources beyond the breaking point.
A regulatory regimen that is specifically hostile to small business and generally antithetical to the idea Americans have the right to the product of their work, innovation, or investment.
A foreign policy that slow-walks support for wars in Ukraine and Israel making certain they aren’t lost but can’t be fully won either. As a result we spend billions in U.S. taxpayer money on wars we don’t seem to want to win.
And a national defense that is withering while the administration pursues an appeasement strategy with foreign actors intent on destroying America.
Biden and Democrats aren’t the only problem.
There are rising sentiments in the Republican Party as well that suggest massive debt, more regulation, and a renewed isolationism are what America needs right now.
They seem not to have learned the lesson from the drubbing conservatives took in UK elections last week. When “conservatives” start looking more like “progressives,” why shouldn’t voters choose the real deal?
With our national debt at more than 130% of GDP, Washington running $2.3 trillion in annual deficits, and some $1 trillion spent to service our national debt; a restructuring is coming. It must. Current spending is unsustainable, and neither party has the courage to fix it.
What can we do? We need to start by recognizing what is in our power to control and what is not. Electing a new president may delay what’s coming, it may even soften the impact, but it won’t stop the coming storm all together.
What we can do is prepare. Start by finding like-minded individuals in our communities — in businesses, churches, local government, charities, and civic groups — and formulate plans to support one another, and care for our neighbors.
That’s what the In Trust Network will do, help those with the will to prepare.